Erdrich, Boo win National Book Awards

2:38 PM,
Nov. 19, 2012

Written by

Bob Minzesheimer
USA Today

Louise Erdrich's The Round House, a novel about a woman who is raped and left traumatized on an Indian reservation in North Dakota, recently won the National Book Award for fiction.

Erdrich, who gave part of her acceptance speech in Ojibwe, said the award "recognized the grace and endurance of native women." USA TODAY's four-star review called it "deeply moving" and "impossible to forget." The other winners are:

? Non-fiction: Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity by Katherine Boo, who said that "small stories and hidden places matter." The judges ...